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Tel"pher (?), n. (Elec.) Specif., the equipment or apparatus used in a system of electric transportation by means of carriages which are suspended on an overhead conductor, as of wire.

Tel"pher*age (?), n. (Elec.) Specif., electric transportation of goods by means of carriages suspended on overhead conductors, as of wire, the power being conveyed to the motor carriage by the wires on which it runs. Telpherage and telpher are sometimes applied to such systems in which the motive power is not electricity.

||Tem*blor" (?), n. [Sp.] An earthquake. [Western U. S.]

||Tem"pe*ra (?), n. [It.] (Paint.) A mode or process of painting; distemper.

Tem"per*a*ture, n. (Physiol. & Med.) The degree of heat of the body of a living being, esp. of the human body; also (Colloq.), loosely, the excess of this over the normal (of the human body 98°-99.5° F., in the mouth of an adult about 98.4°).

Tem"per screw. 1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke.

2. A set screw used for adjusting.

Tem"ple, n. 1. (Mormon Ch.) A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.

2. A local organization of Odd Fellows.

Ten"der*foot`, n. See Boy scout.

Ten"der*loin` (?), n. 1. A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in beef or pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

2. In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice.

||Ten"dre (?), n. [F.] Tender feeling or fondness; affection.

You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre.

Thackeray.

Ten*dresse" (?), n. [F.] Tender feeling; fondness. [Obs., except as a French word]

||Ten*no" (?), n. [Jap. tenn, fr. Chin. t'ien heaven + wang king.] Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion.

Ten`ny*so"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.

||Ten`o*ni"tis (?), n. [NL., Gr. te`nwn tendon + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of a tendon.

||Ten`o*ni"tis, n. [NL. See Tenonian, -itis.] Inflammation of the Tenonian capsule.

Te*nor"rha*phy (?), n. [Gr. te`nwn tendon + -rhaphy.] (Surg.) Suture of a tendon.

||Ten`o*si"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. te`nwn tendon + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of a tendon.

||Ten`o*syn`o*vi"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. te`nwn tendon + synovitis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath of a tendon.

Ter"ek (?), n. [Because found on the Terek River in the Caucasus.] A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

Term day. A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.

Ter"mi*nal (?), a. (Railroads) Pertaining to a railroad terminal; connected with the receipt or delivery of freight; as, terminal charges.

Ter"mi*nal, n. (Railroads) (a) The end of a line of railroad, with the switches, stations, sheds, and other appliances pertaining thereto. (b) Any station for the delivery or receipt of freight lying too far from the main line to be served by mere sidings. (c) A rate charged on all freight, independent of the distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses; a terminal charge. (d) A town lying at the end of a railroad; -- more properly called a terminus.

Term insurance. Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.